Improvement in tea-kettles



@anni @frn tra at cHARfnEsfWQMcLURE ANDWILLrAM A. SHEPARD, or WcosTEu, OHIO'.`

Letters Patent No. 112,266, date-d February 28, 1871,

, IMPRQVEMENT IN TEA-KETTLES.

i; "'rlhe schedule yrefer-rea to in :ness Letter@ Patent making part of the same.'

9 To all whom it may cdccwz': t

Beit knownfthative, GHARLESW. MCGLURE and e `W1LL1AM`A.=SHEPABD, ofWooster, in the county of \Wayue and State of 0hio`,` have invented certain new and useful `:'[mprtwenl ents "in TeafKettles, 85e.; and

`we do hereby .declare that the following is a full,

clear,and exact description thereof, reference being `had/tothe,"accompanying` drawing and' to the letters `of referencey marked` thereon `which form` a part of this specification, ir'lwhich the iigure represents asidel view of our inventionb The nature of our invention consists the manner of fastening the'top `of 1a .tea-kettleand other utensils ,in ther-manner hereinafter described.

1 4 The gurein the annexed drawing represents a side view of a tea-kettle A` designates "the handle, which` isssecurely riveted to the top of.the kettle.` y l a. l Directly behinu-thenanaie the tops is hinged to the kettle C.

"j d `represents akmetal latch, secured to the handle A at its end next to theI spout of the kettle.

a Q The` latch d is `consti'ucted with two ears, e, extending inward. `1 f a Immediately"`insidel"ofsaid earsA are `two metal plates, the innerledgesfof"which are soldered to the handle A. l'

. g represents al `forked metal spring, one fork of which `rests againstlthe outerfside of handle A, and the other `1fork"againstrthelatchxlblIt` l kept position by pivot, which A 0f the kettle.`

" Witnesses:

passes through the ears c, through the two plates Isoldered to the handle A, and between the forked spring g, near the point of bifurcation. Gr represents a metal catch soldered( to the top of thekettle, infront of latch p Thereisv an opening. at the bottom of G, and Vthe latch d, being bent outward at bottom, will be forced -in said opening by the spring, and thusA lock the top or breast adhody of thekettlc together. a i By pressing the latch outward at top it will become disengaged from the catch G andthetop of the kettle -raised at pleasure.

It will be remarked that the springl will be snfd,

:ciently rigid to retain the latch in position under the catch G, so that no accident'is liklyjo occur in consequence of the separation of the top from the body Having thus described ourrir'irention, What wel claim, and Adesirefto secure by Letters The combination oftst B andvhandle A, latch d, and catch G, all arranged to'operate substantially `as described. o

' In `testimony that-we nesses.

' CHARLES W. MCOLURE.

Y claim the foregoing as our` own we afx our signatures in presence of two wit- WILLAM A.' SHEPARD. A 

